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House spiders are almost exclusively harmless and gain a terrible reputation. Down here in the south east we have an abundance of orb weaver spiders.
Absolutely gorgeous and, for the most part, totally harmless. I genuinely don’t understand why people are so terrified of these things. Spiders are one of the reasons we’re not completely overrun with insects and other pests, and most species would much rather avoid us than have anything to do with us.
The brown recluse and black widow should obviously be treated with respect, but even they are highly misunderstood. Neither species is particularly aggressive toward humans, and bites are relatively uncommon. They generally bite only when threatened, trapped against the skin, or otherwise disturbed. Their reputation is considerably worse than their actual behavior.
Spiders aren’t out looking for people to bite. They’re predators doing an extremely useful job of keeping insect populations under control. Unless you have a medically significant species in your home, there’s usually very little reason to be afraid of them and quite a few reasons to appreciate them.
My cat was getting into the basement at my exes house, and the spiders SENT A FUCKING MESSAGE. They got their biggest guy to come up and perch on the toilet paper in the bathroom. I decided I didn’t need to pee and secured the basement door better from then on.
I had to evict the jumping spider that lived in my curtains for 2 years because I was moving, I felt terrible. That little lady worked hard and earned her place, I offered to bring her to the new apartment, but she declined, I wish her the best.
What about car mirrors?
can learn our routines
The spiders in my room are very concerned about how little sleep I’m getting and how irregular my bedtime is
Are the garages any different from people and houses, vs caves and tents?
Sounds like it’s the spider’s house.
Spider: You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it.
I kinda miss the wolf spider that lived in my bathroom window. Such a chill little roommate. It just kinda showed up one day, set up its little web, and we each just minded our own business.
I kept my showers short, never opened the window, and if I swatted a fly in the kitchen, I’d deposit it in its web. Never gave me much in return. But that’s fine. I was just happy to have its company.
I had a spider who lived under my shower basin at a previous house. I never bothered him and he must have been eating something since he hung around for a long time. Cool dude.
There’s a spider in my garage named Shelob. She eats mice. I live in Scotland and this is not normal.
At least I don’t have to set mice traps.
Yo how big is this fkn spider
Big enough to eat mice.
set up its little web
Then it wasn’t a wolf spider. They don’t build webs* and are active prowling hunters that won’t stick around in one place for long. Window sills are usually prime funnel-weaver (Agelenidae) real estate.
*There a few exceptions like Sosippus bit it’s only a handful out of over 2500 wolf spider species that build webs.
the ones in my area build a tunnel out of webs and sit inside it
Yes, it’s a very common thing that spiders of all sorts do. But by far the most common spiders that do that are funnel-weavers in the Agelenidae family. It’s probably one of those for you and the original commentor.
Good luck to the spiders trying to learn the routine I don’t have.
Your spider will be scheduling an ADHD diagnosis appointment for you soon.
“Sir, it doesn’t appear to exist.”
“That’s impossible, Wilkins. Run your test again. You can forget about lunch.”
“I’ve run it 7 times, sir. It’s…his days are totally…random. Anyway, they’re serving Eggplant. No thank you.”
“My God, Wilkins. We’re doomed. Did they have any chicken fingers?”
What an absolute vibe. Same here.
Every year it takes a few times of walking through a web near the house entrance before they keep the webs only up in the corners. Not sure if it’s adaptive or the ones who get webs destroyed by my face die off but somehow they always figure it out.
There’s a solid chance the spiders whose webs were destroyed are dying off. Building an entire web is a pretty biologically costly process as I understand it, and having its method of catching food destroyed doesn’t bode well for a spider’s chances of making a new one
September is typically spider time (in western Europe). I suppose young spiders haven’t learnt their spider etiquette yet, or they just use their spider wire to fly around more than big spiders I assume.
Autumn is mating season for spiders, it’s when a lot of them come out of hiding in search of some sexy times.
I’m terribly sorry to my spider friends. You see, I’m an ADHD creature and that means there aren’t really much of routines to learn. Must be frustrating for them!
Give yourself some credit, you’re rarely walking on the ceiling
At one point in my life I was living in a dank California basement room, spending 99% of my time in bed due to a severe mental health crisis, 2 years straight.
One night I saw a spider chilling at the bottom of one of my bedposts. I took a picture of it and went back to bed.
8 years later I used image search to identify what kind of spider it was.
It was a brown recluse the size of my hand.
The problem with that story is that there are no brown recluses in California. They have some desert recluses in the south-east, but they barely interact with humans.
It was a brown recluse the size of my hand.
They also don’t get this big. You most certainly misidentified some other brown spider.
If you still have the picture feel free to send it to me or post it to !spiders@lemmy.world and I’ll take a look.
You’re right!
I’m not getting a very good picture of the actual spider here but I have to agree with the first AI suggestion from what I’m seeing. Reluctantly. Definitely not a recluse, though.
Apparently it’s either a False Wolf Spider or a Southern House Spider, the former often confused with the brown recluse according to the Google image search result and my own personal experience lol.
Looking at it again it’s probably not nearly as large as my hand, but still quite large of all the spiders I’ve seen myself IRL.
Poor thing lost a leg on the left! But yeah, Titiotus is a very good suggestion, checks all the boxes … it kind of annoys me because I probably wouldn’t have thought of Zoropsidae, because we only have the one here in Europe.
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Actually, it bit you and you died. Welcome to hell.
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Don’t just thank them replace your shitty censored version with it
No need to be rude about it.
Are you offended that I’m rude towards a meme ?! Get lost.
I mean you’re being rude towards the person who posted the meme, not the Pic itself lol
I would 100% prefer seeing spiders in my home than mosquites and cockroaches, but then again I dont live in Australia and spiders are tiny asf
